Silver Lining - _TNY_4492
I was talking to a couple of visitors at the Haga Oecan butterfly house on a mid October (of 2025) visit, right next to the chrysalis cabinet when we spotted this male silver-striped charaxes (Charaxes lasti) on the floor.
Unfortunately, most people tend to look up at the chrysalides (and flying butterflies) so those on the floor there run a very real risk of being stepped on.
Now we couldn't have that so I put my finger in front of it and Mr. Silver here immediately climed up on it. After showing it to the four-year-old boy next to me, I placed it on the stem of a cornstalk dracena (Dracena fragrans) where it immediately climbed out to the tip of one of the flowers and sat there on the underside like so many Charaxes species appear to prefer.
Not showing here is the beautifully orange dorsal side of the wings with black spots, which made it easy to tell this ws a male (the female instead has a yellow base colour). But then again, the dark red here is pretty nice as well, right?
Silver Lining - _TNY_4492
I was talking to a couple of visitors at the Haga Oecan butterfly house on a mid October (of 2025) visit, right next to the chrysalis cabinet when we spotted this male silver-striped charaxes (Charaxes lasti) on the floor.
Unfortunately, most people tend to look up at the chrysalides (and flying butterflies) so those on the floor there run a very real risk of being stepped on.
Now we couldn't have that so I put my finger in front of it and Mr. Silver here immediately climed up on it. After showing it to the four-year-old boy next to me, I placed it on the stem of a cornstalk dracena (Dracena fragrans) where it immediately climbed out to the tip of one of the flowers and sat there on the underside like so many Charaxes species appear to prefer.
Not showing here is the beautifully orange dorsal side of the wings with black spots, which made it easy to tell this ws a male (the female instead has a yellow base colour). But then again, the dark red here is pretty nice as well, right?